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Les vikings et leurs captifs Britanniques : entre violences infligées et violences fantasmées

open access: yesCriminocorpus, 2020
Many stereotypes run through the historiography on Vikings and violence. This article proposes to reassess the fate of the captives during the Viking raids in the British Isles through a non-exhaustive corpus.
Jean-Louis Parmentier
doaj   +1 more source

Forgotten Victims. Remarks on Hittite Behavior towards Prisoners in the Empire’s Northern Central Frontier Zone

open access: yesGerión, 2014
During the second half of the II millennium B.C., the military expansion developed by the Hittites involved the taking of captives, both warriors and civil population.
Juan Manuel González Salazar
doaj   +1 more source

White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Review of: White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier.

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Maux de l’âme et mots du corps : témoignages de la captivité aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles

open access: yesCahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires, 2013
This paper will explore three archival and documentary corpora, such as the trials of renegades (former captives who had recanted their faith to become Muslims in Islamic countries) by the Spanish Inquisition, the Redemptorist fathers’ accounts of their ...
Anita Gonzalez-Raymond
doaj   +1 more source

The Captives of Florida [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In September 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés of Spain sought out and attacked the Huguenot French in their Florida settlement. When his victory was won, a number of men, women, and children had become captives of the Spanish, while at least two Spaniards
Lyon, Eugene
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Routes of Atlantic Slave Voyages: Revised Framework and New Insights

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2019
This study explores data on the Atlantic slave trade through a revised framework, focusing not simply on voyages of individual slave ships but on aggregating them by route, linking an African region of departure with an American region of arrival.
Patrick Manning, Yu Liu
doaj   +1 more source

De fragmentos a tramas: el cautiverio indígena y el archivo colonial en el Río de la Plata

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
This article addresses the forced displacement of Indigenous captives in the eighteenth-century Río de la Plata. Drawing upon two exemplary cases – three Abipón caciques from the Chaco who were imprisoned in Montevideo and a captive from the Pampas who ...
Jeffrey Erbig   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

El poder de los cautivos: relaciones sociales entre abipones e hispanocriollos en las fronteras del Chaco austral (siglo XVIII)

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2011
This paper deals with the problem of captives among the Abipones groups of Chaco during the 18th century. For the above-mentioned groups the practice of captive-taking was complex because it involved political, social, economic and symbolic aspects ...
Carina P. Lucaioli
doaj   +1 more source

Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

The Natural Product Corramycin Acts as a DNA Gyrase Poison and Overcomes Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Corramycin, a myxobacterial natural product antibiotic, exhibits potent bactericidal activity against multidrug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The compound hijacks bacterial transporters such as BacA and OppABCD to enter the cell and inhibits DNA synthesis through a previously unrecognized mode of DNA gyrase poisoning, locking the enzyme in an ...
Franziska Fries   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

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